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...hunting is getting better, though Eastern Europe still buys scarcely 4% of Western Europe's exports. Recently Austria's VÖEST sold an entire steel plant to Czechoslovakia. France's Renault signed up to build an auto assembly plant for the East Germans; in Poland, the British Motor Corp. is fighting Italy's Fiat for the contract to build an auto factory. Last week ouside Ploesti in Rumania, Illinois' Universal Oil Products prepared to break ground for a $22.5 million cracking plant-one of the biggest U.S. construction jobs ever undertaken behind the Iron...
...Gott in Frankreich - like God in France. Wages are rising almost twice as fast as productivity, imports are climbing twice as fast as exports, and the government has been spending much more than it has collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs, $2 a Ib. for not-so-tender beefsteak. Last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, his re-election safely behind him, finally announced a cut back...
After five transatlantic attempts to reach the singer for comment, the CRIMSON made contact with a female member of Harrison's household at 9 p.m EST (2 a.m Greenwich time). All she said was: "Who's George Harrison? I never heard...
...Russians have vociferously denied Wildenstein's charges, but French critics tend to agree with him. "The Russians boxed us in very neatly on this one," an art critic for Le Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's curators, they protested that they had merely accepted the show from Bordeaux, where it was organized by the Gaullist mayor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, with the blessings of Culture Minister André Malraux. However, one curator admitted: "The first thing I did when I noticed-uh-certain things, was rewrite the catalogue...
...France's Charles Aznavour it is the transiency of love that hurts. L'amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes...